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second all in favor all right
all in favor
aye thank you
call to order government operation the
parsa item is called for public hearing
to a man city ordinance 87
0.6-1 residency requirement from this
quarter to you
all right so we've been talking about
this for a while and the fact that um
you know we're low on staff
and
right now the
requirement to work for the cities that
you live in the city or get a waiver so
at this point in time like to entertain
us
expanding the footprint of who where
people can live in order to work for the
city
as i've said before that
everyone is experiencing the same
problem that we
are having
and other folks as well other
municipalities and businesses etc are
also expanding footprint where their
employees can live in order to come here
so i'm putting this forward to actually
have a
public hearing regarding the residency
requirements and i'd also like to point
out that it has not always been required
that you live in the city of schenectady
in order to work for the city of
schenectady this particular ordinance
was changed in 1988. so clearly at that
time um there was a time when we didn't
need it or wasn't necessarily a time
when maybe the city was had many more
people here and therefore we had a
larger pool of people um
to choose from and now we're at a
different place so
i'd like to just put this forward to uh
for a public hearing
let's change the code
any comments any questions regarding
this public hearing to amanda city
residency
second all in favor
right
the next item uh discussion on
implication of the employee misconduct
and supported field um as i understand
this speaking of the mayor there is a um
ongoing investigation
so this would need to go into an
executive session
you can't hear me i didn't hear the last
part of it this would need to go an
executive session
so we need a more complete momentum
second all in favor aye aye
i'd like to call to order city
development and planning we have four
items on the agenda the first item is a
hundred and one forty-five
uh street historic landmark
designation i'll see miss diaz here
is there anyone here to speak to that
at this point i think it's just
specific questions that i could answer
we're
just moving through the process
i think the planning commission
reviewed this application
i think was referred to the planning
commission
and at the june 15th meeting
they uh issued a resolution of support
to designate the site of historic
landmarks and that's coming back to city
council for
action if the city council is so
inclined
are there any questions
i'll move it second all those in favor
all right
okay the next item on the agenda is the
sunnyview belmont avenue rezoning
planning commission referral again ms
diaz who's not here uh mr coleman would
you speak to this as well uh i will can
i get to the page sorry
again there was a public hearing already
on this uh the city council had referred
this to the planning commission uh it
involved the rezoning of the parcels uh
it was considered by the planning
commission at the june 15 meeting and
the commission issued a unanimous
recommendation to the council to approve
the zoning change of the parcels uh with
the additional finding planning
commission looks forward to working with
sunnyview to improve the overall
efficiency and code compliance of their
properties
are there any questions
i'll move it second
the next item is to authorize the mayor
as his designate to award the brandywine
avenue safety improvements project
to carolina industries ms
uh wong award that we have here is a
rebid the project was originally bid
over a month ago however it was bid with
the add all included in the base fit the
number that we got was similar i would
say to what we have here was over 2
million
budget for the project is not that large
we were able to secure some safety funds
to bring it up however still they will
only cover the base bid i will say that
i have talked to some people who are
experts in the area about the success of
raised intersections which was the base
bid
and
to date without going on the record for
who i talked with the costs associated with them right now
do not weigh the investment
they are large precast panels that get
put in
to the intersection turns the entire
intersection to a slightly raised
concrete area and you see that the cost
for that would be a little over half a
million dollars
that would be half a million dollars
that the city would have to bear
entirely due to the budget
and like i said talking to people
we are going to be reconstructing
striping
new signals really trying to you know
improve the with typical measures so i
don't think that half a million dollar
investment is worth it at this time we
can probably move that money up
elsewhere and do other improvements so
i'm comfortable moving forward with the
base bit the reason i just explained
that is because
the
bids would shift depending on if we were
to take the alternate so i just want to
make sure that everyone's aware of that
so
these are the closest bits in my tenure
history
if you do the math they're actually
separated by 0.03
5 000
on a 1.7 million dollar bid i mean
that's
amazing unbelievable
uh i am comfortable moving forward with
the base bid with calling in without the
at all uh any questions at the time
uh the only thing is to come up with
schedule
i i don't know how the schedule is going
to work as you can tell from other
projects
even if we were to start this year with
calendar
components signal components mainly and
things that involve metal or brackets
for computers they are all on huge lead
times
and so it may not be the wisest that we
start
immediately we may want to order do our
shop drawing and then start right in the
spring i will you know make the mayor
aware but i just want to make sure this
is step one i don't want to promise that
we're gonna have a shovel in the ground
in september
because if you can't get the signals and
some of the components it kind of might
leave us in this half-baked situation i
have to find out
any questions
i'll move this second all those in favor
thank you thank you
um
and the last time on the agenda is uh
g's easement agreement with the town of
rotterdam mr colvin thank you um
the city owns a property in the town
around it rotterdam it's identified as
section block and lots 60.17-2-26
it's a
vacant uh parcel it's approximately 7.77
acres
the town of rotterdam has approached the
city
they have a drainage
project that they're looking to put
together
in order to move ahead with it they're
seeking an easement from the city so
that they can access the property
for the purposes of the project as i
said
it will have negligent impact on the
city as i mentioned it is vacant land
i included a survey
showing the area in which
the easement would be covered
i'd spoken to paul faun
about this he doesn't see any impact on
his
projects or
his use of any properties in rotterdam
related to this
so looking to
potentially enter into an agreement
mayor
some ongoing negotiations with the town
of rotterdam a couple things where this
is part of it so before the council
votes on this i'd like to review
some of the things that are
part of ongoing negotiations so that
would require
just a brief
time and executive session okay well then at this point in time i'd
entertain a motion to go into the
executive session
second all those in favor
okay